Posted on 05/05/2008 10:42:34 AM PDT by pissant
PHOENIX (AP) - Republican presidential hopeful John McCain says the focus on illegal immigration during the Republican primary season harmed his party's image among Hispanics.
Speaking to reporters in Phoenix on Cinco de Mayo, McCain said that Hispanic citizens want America's borders secured and illegal immigrants to be treated humanely.
He says low-income Hispanic citizens are vulnerable to losing their jobs to the lower wages accepted by illegal immigrants.
On the subject of broader immigration policies, McCain says local governments would not have to take on immigration problems had the federal government overhauled the country's immigration policies.
McCain spoke at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport before his flight to North Carolina.
pissant you sure know how to stir up a hornets nest.
McLame, the Republicans and the Dems are both selling out for the latino vote and thus they both deserve to be abandoned by their constituents.
Round up ALL illegals and send them back to from wherever they
came from.
Let them try legally.
More will loose this Nov....we aren’t thru yet
We're mad as **** and not going to take it anymore?????
McCain's 'in your face' who needs a stinking rule of law attitude....
..Hillary's outright pro-sanctuary city response on O'Reilly...
..Obama's ANYTHING....
Folks, we're in serious trouble....
...and we have nowhere to go.
McCain himself has done more to hurt the GOP image than anything else ever could.
Deny, deny, deny!
Don’t miss his new website —Bienvenido!
http://www.johnmccain.com/espanol/
¡Mantengamos la esperanza! ¡Mantengamos la unidad! ¡No nos dobleguemos! ¡Nunca nos rendiremos! ¡Estamos Unidos!
(Keeping hope! Keeping unity! We do not bend! We never surrender! We Are United!)
Oh, it’s the base’s out of touch ideas that hurt the party, is it?
Is that McCain’s latest reason for why he can’t raise any money?
If we are out of touch, he’d be raising money.
He’s not raising money, so the problem is not with the base.
Nobody wants him.
Nomination candidate McCain said he heard the American people on the amnesty issue.
Presidential candidate McCain is backpedalling.
As expected, he is as much of a liar as the two liars running against him.
Nonetheless, liar McCain is slightly preferable to liars Obama and Hillary as he is less likely to implement a socialist agenda and may be more amenable to pressure from the Republicans in Congress, if they can ever locate their spines, tectacles and intestines.
McCain was a BAAAAAADDDDDDDDDDDDDDD mistake.
Romney would have been much better. He was the most conservative of the leading canidates, and he has the kind of presence and personality which Hillary/Obama would have had a problem dealing with. Also, he has the economic expertise.
Well, at least we have a candidate who doesn’t believe Christ and Satan were brothers (sarcasm).
We were sold a bill of goods on McManiac - or rather, SOME of us were. The more McManiac shoots his mouth off about issues like this, the FEWER Republicans will bother to come out and pull that lever for him.
And if he really thinks non-assimilated Hispanics (the only kind his pandering rhetoric will appeal to) will come out to vote for him, he’s loonier than even I thought he was.
For Immediate Release
May 5, 2008 Contact: Oficina de Prensa 703-650-5550
ARLINGTON, VA -- El senador de Estados Unidos John McCain hizo las siguientes declaraciones hoy con motivo del Cinco de Mayo a la vez que su equipo de campaña anunció varios nuevos programas en español:
"El Cinco de Mayo conmemora un momento importante en la historia del avance de México hacia la libertad. En esta fecha en 1862, un pequeño grupo de soldados mexicanos se sobrepuso a una gran potencia y ganó la Batalla de Puebla. Hoy, nos unimos para recordar los sacrificios que hicieron estos patriotas mexicanos, como también la lucha de todos quienes buscan la libertad en el mundo. Reconocemos también la importante amistad que existe entre nuestro país y México, y celebramos los muchos aportes que los méxico-americanos han hecho a nuestra sociedad, cultura, seguridad y economía".
Las declaraciones con motivo del Cinco de Mayo ahora se pueden encontrar en la sección en español del sitio oficial de la campaña en http://espanol.johnmccain.com, el cual su equipo lanzó hoy. Esta sección del sitio de Internet ofrecerá información actualizada en español regularmente durante las elecciones.
Finalmente, como parte de su compromiso a dialogar con todos los estadounidenses durante esta campaña presidencial, el equipo de campaña de McCain a la presidencia anunció que John McCain participará en la Convención Anual de La Raza en San Diego el 14 de julio de 2008.
If I type in “2” could I understand that?
Juan was just throwing his real base a bone on his way to wooing the ever elusive undecideds and dem crossovers.
Can’t he see that there are a lot of Americans, who otherwise consider themselves Democrats, but who want their country back? If he would come down on the side of the rule of law, and sovereignty, and American culture, and making sure we don’t get inundated with third worlders faster than they can assimilate into that culture, he would get tons of votes. Didn’t he learn anything from the amnesty fiasco?
I was against Rudy McRomney from day one, and will be so til my dying day.
I’ll give you a translation of the bold parts:
• (With regard to why “we” are celebrating Cinco de Mayo)... We also recognize the important friendship between our country and Mexico, and celebrate the many contributions that Mexican Americans have made to our society, culture, economy and security.
• Finally, as part of its commitment to dialogue with all americans during this presidential campaign, the McCain campaign team announced announced that John McCain will participate in the Annual Convention of La Raza in San Diego on July 14, 2008.
Keep fighting for conservatism. We are going to be taking it on the jaw for the next four years, but look at Britain and Italy. Both cleaned house of their socialists. We can do the same in 2012.
Sure we do. It's Bob Barr who's running for the Libertarian Party nomination. Don't let the "stupid party" hacks bamboozle you.
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